summary punchn.
/ˈsʌm(ə)rɪ pʌn(t)ʃ/, U.S. /ˈsəməri ˌpən(t)ʃ/ Computing. Now historical and rare.
A device that automatically produces punched cards representing the output of a tabulator.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > piercing or boring tools > [noun] > punches
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punch1505
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bear1853
bell-punch1877
summary punch1934
society > computing and information technology > hardware > secondary storage > [noun] > punch card or tape > punching device
hand punch1803
keypunch1903
summary punch1934
tape punch1947
keypuncher1965
1934 Proc. Iowa Acad. Sci. 41 252 These cards are then passed in pairs through the tabulator which is provided with a summary punch.
1970 O. Dopping Computers & Data Processing iv. 75 The summary punch can punch information coming from the registers of the tabulator.
2008 W. H. Ware RAND & Information Evol. iv. 65 Type 407 tabulator cabled to a type 521 summary punch.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
summary punchv.
/ˌsʌm(ə)rɪ ˈpʌn(t)ʃ/, U.S. /ˌsəməri ˈpən(t)ʃ/ Computing. Now historical and rare.
1. transitive. To automatically encode (the output of a tabulator) onto a punched card; to punch (a card) with such output. Cf. summary punch n.
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1935 W. T. Middlebrook in G. W. Baehne Pract. Applic. Punched Card Method in Colleges & Universities iii. ii. 131 When this monthly general ledger is tabulated, cards are summary punched.
1936 Jrnl. Optical Soc. Amer. 26 85/2 These numbers will both be summary punched.
1957 Jrnl. Assoc. Computing Machinery 4 442 Using this technique and summary punching the product reduces the effective speed of the 407 by about a factor of three.
1995 IEEE Ann. Hist. Computing 17 46/1 Another 1.2 to 1/6 seconds had to be added when the results were also summary punched.
2. intransitive. Of a component of a computer system: to automatically produce a punched card representing the output of a tabulator; to perform the function of a summary punch.
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society > computing and information technology > hardware > secondary storage > use punch [verb (intransitive)]
summary punch1949
keypunch1951
1949 E. C. Berkeley Giant Brains iv. 50 The reproducer..can..summary punch, or copy totals or summaries obtained in the tabulator into blank cards in the reproducer.
1962 L. J. Salmon IBM Machine Operation & Wiring xviii. 207 Figure 144 shows the additional 402–3 wiring necessary in order to summary-punch.
Derivatives
ˈsummary ˈpunching n.
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society > computing and information technology > hardware > secondary storage > [noun] > punch card or tape > punching of holes in
field1903
keypunching1913
summary punching1935
tape-punching1951
over-punching1958
1935 17th Ann. Proc. Amer. Gas Assoc. 231/1 The speed increase is obtained by the summary punching of descriptive data while the electric accounting machine is accumulating totals applicable to such descriptive information.
1957 N. Chapin Introd. Automatic Computers xv. 341 Summary punching produces, by machine, cards that may contain variable and modified information derived from other cards.
1997 IEEE Ann. Hist. Computing 19 37/1 We have seen that the automatic group-controlled tabulator..is the most suitable census machine, especially if it also uses the summary punching of results.
ˈsummary ˈpunched adj.
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society > computing and information technology > hardware > secondary storage > [adjective] > relating to punched card or tape
summary punched1939
prepunched1940
zone1950
1939 Canad. Jrnl. Econ. & Polit. Sci. 5 489 Frequency distributions were run on the tabulator by grouping from summary punched cards.
1957 N. Chapin Introd. Automatic Computers xv. 342 A summary punch machine..usually does not produce more than one hundred summary punched cards per minute.
1997 IEEE Ann. Hist. Computing 19 35/2 The summary punched results were automatically available.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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